Quality Officer - Microbiology at LOreal

Job Summary

The Hygienist /Microbiologist is responsible for the tracking and validation of equipment cleaning & sanitization processes, managing risks and validating changes to equipment, utilities & procedures, enforces and trains employees on Manufacturing Hygiene and GMP Policies, monitoring microbiology trends of bulk, finished goods, water and environment to drive improvement initiatives.

About The Role

• Responsible for plant hygiene testing, investigations & equipment validations, i. e. Creates & executes cleaning & sanitization validation protocols on manufacturing, storage vessel, transfer piping & packaging equipment. Leads investigations into hygiene/Micro related non-conformances.
• Ensures equipment validation status through change control, periodic revalidation or verification activities.
• Leads Back-to-Back and SIP Dispensation activities.
• Identify, control, prevent and resolve microbiological concerns or issues that impact product quality. Communicate and escalate any findings that impact production, employees and inventory status.
• Trends microbiology testing results of bulk & finished goods for the purpose of proactively identifying gaps and to drive improvement initiatives.
• Understands and is proficient procedures and best practices for managing Industrial Hygiene, including Standard Skid Design, Utility Network Requirements, Sanitization Validation Requirements, etc.
• Participate in the definition of design, validation plans, operating procedures, cleaning & sanitization recipes and training to ensure hygiene of equipment and utilities.
• Trouble shooting of microbiological & cross contamination non-conformities to identify preventive and corrective actions.
• Maintain and environmental monitoring program and trend results to drive hygienic improvements.
• Monitor production water quality, including validation of system changes and driving improvements to remediate out of specification results.
• Develop and deliver hygiene trainings to include but not limited to: Hygiene GMPs, Industrial Hygiene & Manufacturing Fundamentals, Monthly Hygiene Topics, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor s Degree in major technical discipline: microbiology & chemistry preferred with engineering background, or equivalent experiences.
• 3- 5 years of related experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Presents well to all levels of the organization